Domaine de la Vieille Julienne, Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve, 2009 SO062126 Leipold then aged about eight months

then aged about eight months in used barrels with no new oak

with polished tannins

a former history teacher turned natural winemaker

gentle winemaking

60° slopes

Domaine de la Vieille Julienne, Chateauneuf du Pape Reserve, 2009 SO062126 Leipold then aged about eight monthsThis is old vine Grenache at its most patient. Jean Paul Daumen farms biodynamically in Chateauneuf du Pape, and his Reserve is drawn from a tiny plot of centenarian vines on sandy soils that lend finesse to all that southern Rhone power. Made only in vintages that earn it and produced in vanishingly small quantities, the 2009 was the last release before Daumen reorganized his range by terroir, closing a chapter at the domaine. At seventeen years old,